SUPPLY CHAIN ARTICLES
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4 Risk Mitigation Strategies For mRNA Production
Planning and procuring custom materials needed to manufacture mRNA remains a top concern. This article shares risk mitigation strategies for multi-sourcing, S&OP process, packaging size, and material expiry.
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"Mirror, Mirror…": Reflections On Reducing mRNA Production COGS
Here, I outline three overarching words of wisdom I gleaned from Life Edit Therapeutics’ April Sena; Tune Therapeutics’ Tyler Goodwin; and University of Sheffield’s Adi on how the mRNA/RNA industry can better control production costs — particularly as it relates to raw material sourcing and usage.
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Defining The RNA Therapeutics Industry In 2023
Four executives outline which industry challenges, strategic considerations, and opportunities should be top of mind as RNA therapeutics companies establish their to-do lists for 2023.
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Bridging The Atlantic: A European Executive's Guide To Building A Successful U.S. RNA Business (Pt. 2)
European RNA biotech leaders can accelerate U.S. success by aligning fundraising, partnerships, manufacturing, hiring, and regulatory strategy from day one.
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Inside Alnylam's Playbook For High Volume siRNA Production
As one of the first companies to establish a chemoenzymatic ligation platform, Alnylam's Maines and Nechev are in the perfect position to espouse wisdom on the practical aspects and remaining challenges of implementing enzymatic ligation at a large scale. Here in this installment, Maines and Nechev outline what they’ve learned thus far about the science of enzymatic ligation, while also paying credence to the unknowns and existing barriers that, as a frontrunner, Alnylam will inevitably (but willingly) be tasked with facing in the future.
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Multidisciplinary mRNA: What Can We Learn From Other CGTs?
Overall, there are four high-level best practices/mindsets I proposed during a recent presentation that I believe will be crucial for us to bring some talented RNA therapeutic role models to the forefront. But there is one best practice that I think is worth emphasizing more than the others.
ARTICLES, APP NOTES, CASE STUDIES, & WHITE PAPERS
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Costs of poor quality (COPQ) cannot be overstated. Review the statistics that prove how costly it can be to avoid resolving quality issues in your processes and supply chain.
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Ensuring consistent replication and proper retention of plasmid DNA sequence is vital to the economics and efficiency in generating starting materials used for production of AAV delivered gene therapy and mRNA vaccines and therapeutics.
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Risk analysis and lane qualification show supply chains perform consistently, meeting regulatory expectations by demonstrating control, reducing variability, and ensuring reliable delivery.
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Treating cryopreservation as a validated, controlled input improves consistency, quality, and patient outcomes by reducing variability across cell therapy manufacturing, storage, and distribution.
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Explore the challenges impacting clinical supply chains and solutions to overcome these complexities, and understand why it is crucial to pick the right supply chain provider for vaccine storage and distribution.
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Explore a solution for biopharmaceutical companies concerned about the risks an increase in campaign volume can pose to their production timeline.
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Explore the stocking solution offered to a mid-sized CDMO in need of a high volume of safety stock inventory to support their customer portfolio growth.